IBM reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(107,264 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

IBM has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 107,264 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IBM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Sep 23, 2008

Terrible morale at IBM

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The ability to work from home.

Cons

One of the downsides to this company is management's refusal to appreciate the work of it's employees. As with so many corporate giants of today, senior management is certainly taking care of themselves financially with their bonuses and raises, but not sharing the profits of the company with the employees that really make the profits happen. After the last 15 years of being a 2 and 2+ perfomer, I have received either a 2-3% raise, and many years no raise at all. This particular year was the worst. Two weeks after receiving another 2+ performance rating I was told that my job was reclassified and I'm getting a 15% paycut. This was quietly done to approximately 7000 US employees. Another downside to working at IBM is that you never know when your job will either be eliminated or outsourced to another country, so there is no stability in working there.

1.0
Sep 22, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Salaries are good. Work-life balance is very good -- I was able to work at home regularly. Basically, I was able to take off all the time I needed, but performance expectations were not adjusted accordingly. There are many smart people at IBM Research, and it's possible to learn a lot. Seminars on various topics are offered constantly. I found that the variety of work was very good until the last year or two that I was there. I was able to transition from desktop programming to Web programming. Everyone who works at Research in Hawthorne has their own office, which is another plus.

Cons

The performance rating system is seriously broken. When I did well, I was told that "Your work was good this year" -- nothing more. Details were forthcoming only when management thought that my performance was inadequate. I was forced to resign after being given a negative performance review and being given 6 months to improve my performance. This trial period was a joke, as I worked myself to the bone to meet the goals that were given to me, and I did meet the goals, but was told that I had not met the goals. I believe that the motive for these actions on the part of management was age discrimination.

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